ABOUT THE FIRE AT THE EMBASSY OF BENIN. À PROPOS DE L’INCENDIE DE L’AMBASSADE DU BÉNIN

It is with dismay but not surprise that we witnessed the statement by the Gabonese Minister of the Interior, Guy Bertrand Mapangou, on Gabon Television, saying stupid things about the burning of the Embassy of Benin in Gabon and assigning a premeditated responsibility to the Union Nationale party to which André Mba Obame was a member. There are nonsense that government officials should avoid saying because anyone with common sense knows that acts of spontaneous anger by populations often follow certain events; and the burning of that embassy is in line with these spontaneous reactions of a people who can no longer live a nightmare that drags on.

For example, about a year ago, Ukrainian protesters scaled the gates and attacked the Russian Embassy in Kiev, because Russia supports the secessionist rebellion in Ukraine. The event was organized spontaneously by the people angry with the announcement of the destruction in midair of a Ukrainian plane aboard which about fifty people perished.

Another example, less than a month ago, last March, the Turkish Ambassador in France, Hakkı Akil, was attacked in Paris by an Armenian nationalist while at a conference at the University Paris-Descartes. When we know the animosity that exists between Armenia and Turkey about the Armenian genocide and the intense ongoing debate on the subject, we understand the background of this attack and become more measured in the assessment that needs to be done.

We can also point to the multiple attacks against Israeli embassies around the world, whether in Athens, Cairo, Buenos Aires etc. What about the attack in 2012 at the Embassy of France in Bangui?

Guy Bertrand Mapagou knows that the Gabonese people have nothing particularly against the Beninese people, but their anger against that embassy was only a way of expressing their rejection of Maixent Accrombessi. It is a symbolic message. When this is understood, it is all that need to be understood in order to avoid talking nonsense.

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